SpaceX prepares for record IPO while NASA retires Mars spacecraft; major developments in space exploration and commercial spaceflight dominate the week.

SpaceX is targeting a record-breaking IPO that could raise up to $75 billion with a market valuation of $1.77 trillion, positioning Elon Musk to become a trillionaire as the company prepares for its blockbuster stock market debut.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, plays a crucial stabilizing role at the company as it navigates the IPO process, serving as a counterbalance to Elon Musk's leadership style during this critical period.

NASA announced the decommissioning of its MAVEN spacecraft after more than a decade of continuous operation circling Mars, marking the end of a significant long-term mission studying the Red Planet's atmosphere.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system designed to monitor marine ecosystems and climate change effects, prompting Democrats to pledge to fight the termination of these crucial monitoring observatories.

Light pollution in urban areas is worsening allergies by prompting plants to shed pollen for longer periods and in greater quantities, according to new research highlighting environmental health impacts.

Scientists are racing to develop vaccines and treatments for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, a little-known virus type that previously caused only two small outbreaks but is now at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

Artificial intelligence is making significant strides in mathematics, prompting 16 experts to issue a cautionary 'declaration' about the technology's potential threats to mathematics as a traditional discipline following OpenAI's AI-generated proof.

Archaeologists in Laos have discovered thousands of mysterious stone urns scattered across northern regions, which may represent communal burial practices of a lost civilization and hint at previously unknown death rites.

Microsoft, Atom Computing, and EuroQ have announced updated progress in quantum computing development, signaling continued advancement in this transformative technology sector.

Meta has embedded unreleased face-recognition code in its smart glasses platform on millions of phones, designed to identify people via biometric data, raising significant privacy concerns about the technology's deployment.